MTV drops Flash in a flash!

Article No :162 | April 25, 2007 | by Constantinos Demetriadis

MTV dropped their flashy Flash site – which launched a mere nine months ago – in favor of a more robust XHTML version. It seems the Flash version was not complementing their content and the users were bitching about it… as they mention on their blog. I for one am glad to see this happen. As good as Flash can be, nothing can beat the speed, accessibility and plain old simplicity of an XHTML site, as far as content is concerned.

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Constantinos is employed as a Creative Director for Tribal DDB Athens. In his ever dwindling spare time he works on the development of UX Magazine and Joblet. You can find out more about him here of follow him on twitter.

Comments

Hmm… Issues being raised in their announcement post is the playback of videos while navigating/searching/doing something around their site. They should address this quick, quite a rowdy audience IMO. But hey, can’t please everyone.

I don’t know who mtvlabs.tv is (the blog source mentioned above), but their little xhtml blog page consistantly crashes my instance of IE. These guys can’t seem to get it right in xhtml either. Maybe you should retitle the article “MTV programmers can’t get it right in Flash or XHTML”

I saw the mtv.com site for the first time the other day. I thought it was simply amazing. One of the most impressive flash sites i’d seen in a long time for user interaction / design etc. It was perfect. Now I see they’ve changed it and well… it’s boring. The other site was 1000 times better for what they were doing. Ah well. What can you do?

1st) I dont like how 1 has 2 a blogger or google account to post. I have a mtv.com & it isnt enuf? Argh!

When mtv.com changed 2 a flash site I stopped visiting. I have hi speed cable connection & was still having 2 wait 20 yrs 4 the page 2 load; IT TOOK TOOO LONG 2 LOAD! What kind of net connection was needed to access/use the site proprerly? I hated the forced video/commercial (which always seemed to be Madonna from the Music /cowboy era ) that would autoplay on the left shrinking what I was trying to look at on the right.

Bc I never got the page to load fully, I never even got to use the bookmark feature ( I dont even know what it is) or the play a song/video while navigating the website.

This version is SO MUCH BETTER.
Thank u 4 changing mtv.com 2 something we all r able 2 LOAD & enjoy.

Also, the HAT bkgrnds is a cool idea. Good job 4 exposing new artists.

1st) I dont like how 1 has 2 a blogger or google account to post. I have a mtv.com & it isnt enuf? Argh!

When mtv.com changed 2 a flash site I stopped visiting. I have hi speed cable connection & was still having 2 wait 20 yrs 4 the page 2 load; IT TOOK TOOO LONG 2 LOAD! What kind of net connection was needed to access/use the site proprerly? I hated the forced video/commercial (which always seemed to be Madonna from the Music /cowboy era ) that would autoplay on the left shrinking what I was trying to look at on the right.

Bc I never got the page to load fully, I never even got to use the bookmark feature ( I dont even know what it is) or the play a song/video while navigating the website.

This version is SO MUCH BETTER.
Thank u 4 changing mtv.com 2 something we all r able 2 LOAD & enjoy.

Also, the HAT bkgrnds is a cool idea. Good job 4 exposing new artists.

I saw the mtv.com site for the first time the other day. I thought it was simply amazing. One of the most impressive flash sites i’d seen in a long time for user interaction / design etc. It was perfect. Now I see they’ve changed it and well… it’s boring. The other site was 1000 times better for what they were doing. Ah well. What can you do?

I don’t know who mtvlabs.tv is (the blog source mentioned above), but their little xhtml blog page consistantly crashes my instance of IE. These guys can’t seem to get it right in xhtml either. Maybe you should retitle the article “MTV programmers can’t get it right in Flash or XHTML”

Hmm… Issues being raised in their announcement post is the playback of videos while navigating/searching/doing something around their site. They should address this quick, quite a rowdy audience IMO. But hey, can’t please everyone.